kolby
Kolby

Bitcoin, FOSS, guns, speech

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2026-01-12 22:22:22 UTC

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Thanks yeah my ln node is down

2026-01-12 01:03:26 UTC

hello

2025-05-29 14:10:33 UTC

I bought bitcoin today 😁 I bought bitcoin yesterday, and the day before, and the day before, etc., but I bought today too. You should buy some bitcoin!

2025-05-28 13:28:33 UTC

Coffee and sats… best way to start the day ☕️⚡️

2025-05-27 21:31:56 UTC

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The difference is Square is in use by 4 million merchants in the US alone. This roll out is enabled by default for all merchants, meaning customers can now spend bitcoin at 4 million new merchants without the merchant having to do anything at all.
If you fail to see the significance there then you’re blind.

2025-05-27 20:47:06 UTC

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By day I’m an enterprise systems integrations programmer, I’d be happy to help out in my free time!

2025-05-27 19:31:38 UTC

The real point of spending your sats today is to drive and incentivize merchant adoption. We want to live in a bitcoin standard, but to get there we need merchant adoption. Right now Bitcoin is primarily an investment and store of value, and there is demand by merchants for it, so spending sats incentivizes merchants to adopt it as a means for them to grow their stack. But ultimately it leads to wider and wider adoption.

2025-05-27 19:26:58 UTC

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Adoption is a gradual process. Most people can’t live a Bitcoin standard yet. We are still very much in the “Bitcoin is an investment vehicle” phase of adoption.
Ultimately the goal is for it to be used just as money. First comes merchant adoption (as a means to stack sats), then hopefully employees will begin wanting their income as BTC, but before we get there, utilities, bills, taxes, etc gotta start accepting BTC too.
I’m hopeful though! I think we’ll get there eventually. And someday we’ll celebrate those who spent their sats early on to support merchant adoption similar to how we celebrate pizza day now.

2025-05-27 19:05:25 UTC

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They likely use multiple VPNs to distribute where the activity is originating from.

2025-05-27 18:54:28 UTC

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Good post making that distinction.
I recently got into solo mining with a bitaxe gamma. Ive been into bitcoin for years and thought I had a good understanding of how mining works, but getting your hands dirty really blasts away a lot of misconceptions.
I guess I never really had a good understanding of nonce and difficulty until now.

2025-05-27 18:41:32 UTC

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@nprofile…86vm So it is lightning, then how is the auto convert managed?
Will square be doing auto-swaps to on-chain then converting to fiat?
Will fees related to fiat converting come out of the merchants end or will be person paying with bitcoin have to cover those fees?
How will converting to fiat impact merchants tax reporting? Will they now need to worry about capital gains/losses?

2025-05-27 18:35:20 UTC

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Are the transactions done over lightning or onchain?

2025-05-27 18:28:25 UTC

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Id guess there are a lot more square terminals than 16k.
At least in my neck of the woods in the US, nearly every local business is using square. Everyone from the vape store, to the donut shops.

2025-05-27 01:46:26 UTC

We need professional shitposters on Nostr.
I want to endlessly doom scroll like on the other platforms

2025-05-27 01:36:21 UTC

Self hosting has never been easier. @nprofile…d6rp Hub + @nprofile…c8cu is just a magical combo.

2025-05-25 00:48:51 UTC

Hello again Nostr. Which client do you use? Trying primal now

2023-05-03 14:58:05 UTC

I’ve got 413k sats to open up a couple lightning channels. Any recommendations?
#lightning #node #operator #bitcoin

2023-04-27 13:49:59 UTC

Good morning Nostr. I love you

2023-04-26 13:57:54 UTC

Testing new client

2023-04-25 12:33:15 UTC

Good morning #bitcoin #plebchain

2023-04-25 07:10:09 UTC

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No problem! I love conversations like these.
So the main problem is that if it’s on a per relay or client basis, the relays and the clients are incentivized to act as middlemen and have advertisers pay them instead of users. After all, running popular relays and developing / maintaining clients isn’t free.
There’s the idea that clients could still make money from advertisers by providing custom advertiser tailored clients.
But all that have stuff has been done with web2.0 social media and advertisers pay platforms not users.
So there has to be a better incentive to make sure advertisers want to pay users directly instead of the platform. I think the only way to do that is make the method that pays users have higher returns on engagement than normal engagement from platforms showing users ads.
If a user were more likely to click through an ad link, follow an account, repost something by being paid to see it first., advertisers might be more inclined. Micro-sponsorships!
Again this can apply to any account, not just traditional advertisers. This could work in the form of a special kind of DM or tagged post where the account sending the post would be required to send a zap along first in order for the receiving user to get it, like public DMs, this could be set on and off by users if they chose to have no ads.

2023-04-25 06:29:30 UTC

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That and those smart people have the right time preference! They’re in it for the long haul and and working hard on something they actually believe in, not just on something to make quick profit.

2023-04-25 06:26:49 UTC

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Good morning

2023-04-25 06:26:32 UTC

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Nice!

2023-04-25 06:18:23 UTC

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I think first we should pay people for their time and attention.
In order for people to be more comfortable with the idea of giving up hard earned sats for a meme they genuinely enjoyed or a well constructed post such as this one, people must see their own time and attention as valuable in order to probably value other peoples time and effort.
A simple example would be to allow advertisers to directly advertise to target users, but instead of paying the platform with users to show ads for them, the advertiser has control over who is shown their ads and the money they would normal pay to the platform is instead paid out to the target users via zaps.
Users who engage with ads would be more likely to receive future ads, and ads would be more targeted to things you’re actually interested in.
This could extend beyond normal advertising and be used by influencers or just normal people who want to boost a particular post.
I think a system like this, along with the ability to zap content you think is worthy makes for a space that would have less free-riders and encourage a circular economy where everyone’s time is valued accordingly.

2023-04-25 05:58:23 UTC

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Sometimes I wonder if we really are just super early, or if the elites really do get it too and are just silent about stacking sats.
They might be just pushing FUD and propaganda in an effort to keep as many people from buying in before they can stack up.
It’s only a mass transfer of wealth if all the people use it and the elites are last to the party. Otherwise it’s just the evolution of wealth.

2023-04-25 05:49:52 UTC

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So Nostr would still remain an uncensored platform right? Like in the same way Bitcoin is still uncensored even if theoretically a custodial wallet could block a users transaction?

2023-04-25 05:45:21 UTC

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If a Client censors a user, would that censored information still be visible from another Client?

2023-04-25 05:36:06 UTC

I went on a bit of a following spree. Trying to get back into Nostr, I searched #bitcoin and followed as many real seeming people I could 😁
Would love to connect with more bitcoiners!

2023-02-16 03:17:35 UTC

Any tips on filtering Chinese bots from the global feed? Feels like I can’t discover people or topics anymore. Feels like just speaking into the void now.

2023-02-13 05:18:34 UTC

Had to switch back over here after accidentally spending too much time on Twitter. It sucked me into a paranoid rabbit hole about these UFOs, the war in Ukraine, and the chemical catastrophe in Ohio.
Needed to remind myself there is a healthier and happier community over here.

2023-02-13 05:13:48 UTC

Y’all I took like a week off this app and feel as if I missed so much, what are zaps?

2023-02-02 19:06:58 UTC

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That was fun! GG

2023-02-02 19:05:22 UTC

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2023-02-02 19:03:43 UTC

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2023-01-31 23:51:13 UTC

I wonder how many people will join Nostr now that Damus is on the AppStore

2023-01-24 23:11:05 UTC

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Hug

2023-01-24 23:08:11 UTC

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🫂

2023-01-24 22:57:55 UTC

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🫂

2023-01-24 22:57:23 UTC

Testing Alby. I added my Alby LN address to my profile too, at least until I work out issues with my node not getting payments. Probably need more channels, let me know if you want open a channel!
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2023-01-24 22:41:49 UTC

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That’s 2 hugs from you now Jack, save some for everyone else!

2023-01-24 22:37:37 UTC

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Appreciate it, I’ll take it down until I get it fixed, pretty sure I need to open more channels on my node!

2023-01-24 22:32:44 UTC

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9/10 🔥
I wish the price ticker was centered.

2023-01-24 22:19:33 UTC

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$30k** 😉

2023-01-24 22:17:25 UTC

Heads up, Jack is out giving hugs like a mad man.

2023-01-24 22:12:24 UTC

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Right? Tons of exciting projects, I don’t know where to start.

2023-01-24 16:27:04 UTC

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Agreed. I’m not sure how we do so without people running their own nodes. Even then, channel management is not something most people will be willing to do and without proper channel management your ability to send and receive payments to your node is vastly diminished.

2023-01-24 16:23:37 UTC

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You can set one up with your domain using BTCPayServer

2023-01-24 00:10:41 UTC

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Seemed to work! Paid with BlueWallet

2023-01-24 00:03:28 UTC

Do any clients support pinning a post to your profile?

2023-01-23 23:57:37 UTC

Not gonna lie, I’m a little overwhelmed. There are tons of projects being worked on by really cool people that I would love to help out with.
Still learning. Been looking at relay implementations to get a better understanding. Will be taking a closer look at all the NIPs soon.
The “nostream” implementation is cool, I use Node, Redis, Typescript, and Postgres everyday so might dive into some of the issues on the repo.
Let me know if you know of other projects with a similar tech stack!

2023-01-23 23:38:18 UTC

Running nostr